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From the outside, Orwell’s Newspeak reads like an obvious and legible system inside a work of fiction.
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From the outside, Orwell’s Newspeak reads like an obvious and legible system inside a work of fiction. A system of language manipulation and ideology we imagine everyone would easily recognize for what it is.
But the real version is harder to see when you’re inside it.
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Phrases like "great again," "invasion," "criminals," and "right to defend itself" don’t at all mean what they appear to mean.
They are rhetorical weapons used to justify fascism, state violence, and war.
That’s what Newspeak actually looks like.
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